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A Virginia Tech senior has died from injuries he suffered in a skateboarding accident in Blacksburg last week.

For more on the story from reporter Greg Esposito, click here.

Robby Rakes of Christiansburg reeled in a hybrid striped bass from New River just below Claytor Dam on May 13 that measured 28 inches long and 20 inches in girth.

Outdoors writer Mark Taylor reports on his Wild Life blog that the committee that reviews applications for state record freshwater fish is now looking at Rakes' haul as a possible record.

For more on the story, see this post.

Mike Hunter has been hired as the new girls basketball coach at Eastern Montgomery High School.

Hunter has been a girls assistant at Christiansburg for the last five seasons.

For more on this story from our sports department, click here.

The Gobbler Italian Restaurant & Pub, a pizza buffet and delivery on Kabrich Street in Blacksburg closed May 17 but may reopen after a pending sale.

If the sale goes through, the restaurant will reopen in August, said Gobbler general manager Ryan Payne.

The Gobbler’s owner, Matthew Leckie, moved to Ohio and “was on just on the edge about it, so just he decided to scrap it,” due to slow sales, Payne said.

Payne said the location is partially to blame because it’s hidden from main streets.

“This is one of the worst locations in Blacksburg,” Payne said.

-Amy Matzke-Fawcett

Most of them anyway.

Some have headed back to Blacksburg, the rest continue chasing storms -- and they're now in Missouri, with an eye toward the Upper Midwest.

Weather columnist Kevin Myatt, one of the group's co-leaders, has this update on the Virginia Tech Storm Chase 2009 team.

The storm chasers also have their own blog here, including a GPS coordinate where you can track the group's location in relationship to any storms blowing up.

For background on the trip, and who's on it, see this post.

Sportswriter Doug Doughty says, based on his feedback he's gotten recently, the answer is decisively "no."

He and sportswriter Randy King talk Virginia Tech and University of Virginia sports each week on the Sports TimesCast, our college sports webcast. See the May 28 episode.

Sunken Garden Amphitheatre at Nesselrod on the New has announced more acts for its summer line-up, including guitarist Chris Duarte (left) on June 14.

Music writer Tad Dickens has the listing of who's booked at the Radford venue here on his cut'n'scratch music blog.

Disgraced Christiansburg attorney Gerard Marks will serve 11 months in jail for forging judges' signatures and passing fraudulent legal documents, a judge ruled this afternoon.

For more on this story from reporter Tonia Moxley, click here.

Saffire -- the Uppity Blues Women plays Friday at the Christiansburg Event Center as part of the group's farewell tour. Music writer Tad Dickens has an audio interview with the band's Gaye Adegbalola on his cut'n'scratch music blog.

Interstate 81 has re-opened, according to state police. Both lanes of I-81 northbound had been blocked due to a tractor-trailer accident near Elliston, prompting a back-up of five miles at one point.

For more details, see this update.

We had previous posts about the situation at 9 a.m and 10 a.m.